The authors take three particular sociological perspectives, and use them to offer a distinct and critical reading of criminology, highlighting the ways that crime is, first and foremost, a matter of social definition.
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An examination of the links between educational failure and future offending behaviour based on a collection of first-hand accounts by prisoners of their experiences.
Criminal Classes comprises recollections by offenders of their schooldays together with a commentary by the author. It was praised from the outset and has been twice reprinted in response to demand. A wealth of information for criminologists, sociologists and educationalists is …
Every crime casts a unique shadow that may be interpreted to lead the police to the criminal responsible. This book looks at "offender profiling" that helps the police to identify and track individual criminals by the nature of their crime.
En la presente monografía recopilo de modo sistemático los resultados del trabajo de una línea de investigación que me viene ocupando los últimos años: la teoría de las normas, la articulación del sistema del delito sobre su base y sus repercusiones sobre el concepto material de…
Prison studies has experienced a period of great creativity in recent years, and this collection draws together some of the field's most exciting and innovative contemporary critical writers in order to engage directly with one of the most profound questions in penology - why pr…